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Music CD - Afro Celts: Seed
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Music CD: Seed
Artist: Afro Celts
List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $10.96
Your Save: $ 6.02 ( 35% )
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Manufacturer: Real World
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Tracks:
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1. Cyberia
2. Seed
3. Nevermore
4. The Otherside
5. Ayub's Song/As You Were
6. Rise Above
7. Rise Above It
8. Deep Channel
9. All Remains
10. Green Instrumental
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724358150827
Label: Real World
Manufacturer: Real World
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Real World
Release Date: 2003-03-25
Studio: Real World
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Summary: Afro Celts - Seed
Comment: This is the fourth album I've enjoyed from Afro Celts; their blend of African rhythms and Celtic instrumentation is a joy, and never becomes boring - I've used this music as background in my classes, and my students inevitably ask me where they can get it! You can get lost in these songs, and catch yourself humming the melodies long after. I highly recommend any and all of their music to fans of ambient and world music.
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Summary: Brief flights of fancy
Comment: Volume 4 from the electronic, world fusion outfit walks a precarious line between it's amazingly fluid, fast-paced multi-instrumental joys from the past and a more regimented, standardized pulse consuming some of these growingly stereotypical, vocal-laden compositions. Their formula for success might have been a bit more exciting when it was fresh, but at this point the former Sound System still had at least a certain amount of integrity intact. As conceptual overkill begins to wear on producers, soloist's still nail impressively diverse sequences in satisfying measures.
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Summary: Music Should Rule the World
Comment: If music ruled the world...there wouldn't be any wars. This album is a perfect blend of two very diverse cultures, & yet the music works in perfect unison & harmony. The mystical style of celtic music, combined with the rhythmic style of traditional african music is truly unique!
I first heard Afrocelts in the soundtrack from Riding Giants(in Laird Hamilton's story - when he discovers a new way to surf giant waves)and it blew me away!It's one of those 'Serendipitous' things...
'Lucky Me' to have found this little treasure!
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Summary: absolutely wonderful
Comment: I just got this three days ago.
I have been listening to it at work non-stop, ever since I first put it in.
So far, that's about 25 hours. Seriously.
The guest artists (22 according to the liner notes) on this disc are awesome. The energy.. mmmm... Somehow it's able to keep me going with a buzz all day, without forcing a frenetic burn-out as most of my other fast electro-ish albums inevitably do. Absolutely grateful. I have other albums by the Afrocelts, but at the moment, this is definitely my favorite. It's a gem.
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Summary: A FABULOUS Blending Of Music!!!! 2 Thumbs WAY UP!
Comment: I maybe late in the game of knowing this group, but I am hooked now! My mother and I first saw them on tv, channel 35(wybe). We were just cruisin' thru the channels and heard this great music and just had to take a look! Glad we did! After I heard the song "Seed", that was all she wrote, LOL! I had to find out who this group was and I came down later that evening and looked them up on Amazon and orderd it! The blending of the different genres of music is pure genius!!! What a FANTASTIC find this CD is! Afro Celts' music will draw you in and keep you there! :0) All I have to say is ORDER IT!!!
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Editorial Reviews:
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In 1996, the Afro-Celt Sound System formed a sound clash that mixed Irish music, dance floor grooves, West African percussion, and the kora. While there were highlights, often with help from high profile singing guests like Sinead O'Connor and Peter Gabriel, the albums were fragmented. Now the members have shortened their name to the AfroCelts for their forth album, declaring that the Sound System isn't applicable because they've evolved into a more conventional and fully formed group. The change sounds radical, but it's really just a refinement in their working relationship and songwriting skill. Consequently, Seed holds together more strongly as an album. The songs are more consistently crafted and sonically rich here, with different voices and instruments coming to the fore, but never outshining the greater whole. Highlights include the blues slide guitar-driven title track, the wholly acoustic (which is a first!) and Irish jig-inspired "Ayob's Song/As You Were," and the Radiohead-influenced "All Remains." --Tad Hendrickson
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